What’s Right With You?
The following conversation occurs in Alice in Wonderland. Lewis Carroll is telling us to focus on the the right stuff; what’s right with us.
Alice: Where I come from, people study what they are not good at in order to be able to do what they are good at.
Mad Hatter: We go around in circles here in Wonderland; but we always end up where we started. Would you mind explaining yourself?
Alice: Well, grownups tell us to find out what we did wrong, and never do it again.
Mad Hatter: That’s odd! It seems to me that in order to find out about something, you have to study it. And when you study it, you should become better at it. Why should you want to become better at something and then never do it again? But please continue.
Alice: Nobody tells us to study the right things we do. We’re only supposed to learn from the wrong first, in order to learn from that what not to do. And then, by not doing what I am not supposed to do, perhaps I’ll be right. But I’d rather be right the first time, wouldn’t you?
Things that make you go hmmmmm
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